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While happily perusing Google malware alerts this morning, I managed to click on a poisoned URL.  The Vista computer that I use for alerts/surfing/chatting/social networking is not my main PC, but is obviously one that I have no desire to infect!

So as to not reinvent the wheel, I went to Norton Safeweb and got a fairly [...]

Trademytweets[SCAM]com is a new variation of the old Tweeterfast, Tweeterfollow theme. Recent domains that have operated under the same gray umbrella are gettwitterfollowersforfree.com and
SpreadMyTweets.com.
Trademytweets claims:
“How does it work? When you sign in with your Twitter details, our system will find you 20, 40, 60 or 100 other Tweeters. Then with these people it will begin [...]

Spammers often collect email addresses from customer lists, chatrooms, email chain letters, forums, newsgroups, websites, and viruses. Current email accounts that are receiving spam have connections to prior chain mails, forums, and newsgroups. Spam or junk email is almost always unsolicited and unwanted.

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Recently, While watching the twitter public_timeline (TPT), I managed to get myself tangled up in an uncomfortable situation online.  While on the TPT I came across an alleged hacktivist, became overly curious, and followed up by conducting private research to better understand the intentions behind his or her hacktivism activities.
It wasn’t long before I began [...]